Our Future Mechanic

Tyler loves to take things apart and then put them back together. This was very evident when he first started playing with Legos and blocks at such a young age. It seems that during every special occasion/holiday Steve and I would buy him some type of Lego set. With great excitement, he would rip right into the box or container in search of the building instructions. Once he found the instructions, he would spread everything out on the floor and stay occupied for a long time putting his Legos together. After learning how to put his piece together by instructions, he then would pick it all apart and build something other than what the pieces were intended for. Now, that he is older he likes to take bigger things apart. For example, he loves to take his bike apart and then put it back together using bike parts from a totally different bike! He swaps parts between his mountain bike and his chopper bike. He hasn't been riding his chopper bike because the back tire had a hole. Well, this gave Tyler another opportunity to take things apart again. He ended up fixing the the hole in the bike to find out that the entire bike rim needs to be replaced. The bearings must have been really rusted, because they broke as soon as Tyler went to take it for a test drive after fixing the hole. He has asked if we can take him to the local bike store to buy him a new rim for his bike. I figure it would be cheaper to buy him a new rim instead of new bike, because it will be taken apart as soon as Ty can get his hands on it. I'm going to have to keep an eye out and make sure he doesn't start taking our cars apart!